Unit Price:
Price per Item
Measure or Count of Items
•Allows shoppers to compare the
prices of items quickly and easily
Genuardi’s
Paper Plates
Unit Price =
$2
50 plates
= $0.04 per plate
Cereal
For
9 oz.
Unit Price =
$2
9 oz.
= $0.22 per oz.
For
13.75 oz.
Unit Price =
$2
13.75 oz
= $0.15 per oz.
Coffee
Unit Price =
Dannon water
32 pack for $4.99
How much per
bottle?
If each bottle is
16.9 oz., how
much per oz?
Canada Dry Ginger
Ale
6 packs, 3 for $5
How much per can?
Deer Park Water
12 pack for $2.99
Each bottle is 12 oz.
How much per bottle?
How much per oz?
Tea Bags
Package of 100
2 boxes for $5
How much per tea bag?
Coke
2 liter bottles; 4 for $5
How much per liter?
How much per bottle?
Gatorade
8 pack for $5.99
16 oz or 20 oz bottles
How much per bottle?
How much per oz (for each size)?
Ruffles Potato Chips
2 bags for $6
16.5 or 20 oz.
How much per oz for each size bag?
Breyers Ice Cream
Buy one get one free
$5.79 each
1.75 qt. Containers
How much per qt?
Oranges
4 lb. Bag
$2.99
Unit Price?
M & M’s
14 oz. Bag for $2.69
Unit Price?
Safeway Select
Detergent
Wisk Laundry Detergent
300 oz.
100 oz.
$10.99
$4.99
What is the Unit Price? What is the Unit Price?
•“Finding the Better Buy” is determining
which size, store, or deal will give you the
most product for your money
• We use Unit Prices to compare product
sizes to find the better buy
•We also use Unit Prices to determine
which store or deal will give us the better
buy
Dixie plates
Hefty plates
$2.49
2 for $4.00
24 count
50 count (each pkg.)
Unit Price (per plate)?
Unit Price (per plate)?
Cheerios
3 for $6
13.75 oz. boxes
Unit Price (per oz.)?
Cheerios
3 for $7.00
15 oz. boxes
Unit Price (per oz.)?
Genuardi’s
Gatorade
10 for $10 +
2 free
32 oz.
bottles
Giant Food Stores
Unit Price
(per oz.)?
8 pack for $5.99
Gatorade
20 oz. bottles
Unit Price (per oz.)?
Genuardi’s sells 3 different sizes of mayonnaise
as follows:
Small (10 oz.)
for $2.33
Normal size (15 oz.)
for $2.67
Big Container (22 oz.)
for $3.24
Which one is the better buy?
Genuardi’s has these
paper towels on sale, 8
rolls for $5.99.
However they also sell
another larger package,
24 rolls for $16.99.
You want to buy these
since they are on sale,
but which is actually the
better buy?
Bounty: 8 rolls
$5.99
Thirsty: 2 rolls
$2.99
Now you want to compare these two
brands, which are both on sale. You have
determined that you want 8 rolls of paper
towels. Which brand will you buy?
Aquafina:
24 pack
$3.99
16.9 oz. bottles
Deer Park:
12 pack
$2.99
12 oz. bottles